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thank you very much we're here at NASA's

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educator Resource Center with Jennifer

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Simmons and education specialists in the

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academic affairs office Jennifer tell me

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why education is so important to NASA

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yes the education strategic framework

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for the nasa office of education is to

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inspire engage educate and employ the

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future explorers for our agency many

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persons may not realize this but sixty

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percent of the nasa workforce is

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eligible for retirement therefore we

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utilize education programs ranging from

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kindergarten to post doctorate in order

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to inspire these students to pursue

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careers in science technology

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engineering and mathematics so you're

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looking for the people who are going to

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either build the rockets or right on the

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rockets in the future right exactly it

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is so important and one of those

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programs that we utilize is our educator

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resource center network of which I am

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the program manager here at Marshall

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Space Flight Center and here we are

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standing in front of our new education

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and training facility here at the US

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Space and Rocket Center it is really

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nice and I know you have some nice

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classrooms inside and I think bills

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already in there checking them out so

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let's go in and see yes let's go we're

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joined now by carla miller with the

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educator Resource Center and Carla

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before you show us around why don't you

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tell us a little bit about what the

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educator Resource Center is well what we

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do here is we provide professional

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development for teachers NASA produces

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materials that teachers can use in their

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classroom these materials are coincide

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with the national standards for science

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mathematics and technology and geography

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so the muck the sole purpose for us is

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to disseminate these materials and to

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train the teacher on how to use these

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materials in their classroom and one of

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the first places they can start is right

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here in this area what have you got back

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here we have what we call educator

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guides these educator guides have lesson

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plans and activities in these guides

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again they coincide with the national

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standards for science mathematics and

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technology fantastic but what about the

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teacher who maybe needs a little bit

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more the handouts are aren't quite

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enough perhaps they need to learn a

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little bit more okay well we're able to

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help the teacher we facilitate workshops

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here we bring in scientists engine

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years and we also facilitate workshops

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ourselves we're somewhat of an expert

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when it comes to NASA materials and

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education so the teachers can actually

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step into the classroom and basically go

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back to school correct they can what we

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do here is we train the teacher we

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excite the teacher about NASA we excite

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them so they can take it back to their

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classroom and excite their students

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Carla what about the teacher who's from

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out of town wasn't able to make it here

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in Huntsville well we have a program

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that utilizes the new technologies that

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are out there it's called the Digital

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Learning Network let's go check that out

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I'm here with Scott Anderson in the

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Digital Learning Network and Scott this

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looks a lot like a TV studio to me

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that's exactly we have basically a

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full-scale television studio that we use

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to put together programming that we

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deliver to schools across the country

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NASA's Digital Learning Network offers

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three main types of programming we offer

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professional development for educators

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student programming where we which is

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basically classroom modules and then we

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also offer special events where we

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connect NASA scientists and engineers

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with students across the country you

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also have Marshall scientists on there

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sometimes right that's exactly right we

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have several scientists that we do work

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with but we're always looking for more

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for more scientists and engineers to

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come connect with classrooms all right

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you get a lot of interesting things

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around here tell me about some of the

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experiments that you showed these

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students well right here what we're

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looking at is our set that we just

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recently used for a program to think six

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classrooms around the country and the

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topic was living and working in space

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often times when crew members go to

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space they have a unique environment

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that they have to work in and so we do a

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show where we teach students all about

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that so that's kind of what we have here

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all right what's over here over here is

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another set and this is where we do a

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lot of our programming and as you can

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see we got lots of gizmos and gadgets

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that we use to make the programming fun

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and entertaining but what's up on screen

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is now a program offered on a Marshall

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called the toys and space investigation

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and that's where students connect with

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NASA and prior to connecting with NASA

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they've done experiments in the

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classroom where they've investigated the

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physics of toys and then they connect

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with NASA trying to trying to learn the

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answer to the question will this toy

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work in space and so

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they can see you there and you can see

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them and then exactly the the whole

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conference is interactive it's two-way

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video and two-way audio and so

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throughout the conference I can see the

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students and when they ask questions I

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can look for facial expressions and its

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interactive so anytime they have a

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question that can raise a hand or just

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say hey hey what about this and yeah

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it's interactive what a great

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educational tool thanks for showing us

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around Scott thank you we got to visit a

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couple of really neat facilities out

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here at Marshall for today's focus on

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Marshall but we'll be coming back to the

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cedar room to show you how they're

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integrating a virtual reality suit into

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the cedar room in a few months all right

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I don't know if they're gonna let you in